I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
BO BURNHAMBecause I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
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My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
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I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I’m OK, but that’s about it. I like to think I’m good enough not to negatively affect the performance.
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It’s not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage.
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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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“Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?” I don’t worship comedy; at the end of the day I don’t fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.
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I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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The strength of comedy is I don’t have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.
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I’m a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.
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I’m not a grown up until everybody realises I’m a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
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People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
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The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
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